Life — August 15, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Jones, of Willowhurst. IS path it runs from breakfast cup To the inkwell's spattered rim; The eight-six train, the thirty boat, Stand laws of fate to him. He puts behind his hearth and vine— His soul cries out to shirk— But a hundred shrieking engines pant To pipe him down to work. A hundred clanging engine bells The tree-top matins drown ; He leaves his heart in Willowhurst And takes his brain to town, Sewell Ford. ‘What The New York Herald Says About It. Returning from their honeymoon, spent quietly abroad in England, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lehr arrived yesterday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Mrs. Lehr, formerly Mrs. John Vinton Dahlgren, was dressed in a travelling suit of drab flannel, with fine white stripes, and Eton jacket of the same material, She wore a deep blue crushed straw hat, trimmed with polka dot ribbon, and carried a blue polka dotted parasol. MAxY thousands of Americans have never heard of Mr. or ~~ Mrs. Lehr, but it is pleasant, neverthe- less, to know of their safe return, and to know that the lady was properly - clad. Did Mr. Lehr also have -a crushed straw hat with a polka dot? No? Well, it doesn’t really matter very much, «*(NOME with me,” said the Blasted Hope to the New Craving. ‘*Not now,” said the New Craving. ‘* Later.”” On the Right Way. A EMOST every man who hes been successful has written an article for some magazine on SED how he did it, or been inter- ‘ viewed by some newspaper, but all this information has been scattered carelessly 4M abroad, so that just when we want to know what to do, or the right step to take, we cannot lay our hands on the particular species of advice which we remember to have read. The result is that we stumble along as best we can, and probably make the very mistake of our lives, all for want of knowing what Caleb Coupon did at this point. AT THE REQUEST OP SEVERAL OF THR GUESTS THE COLLEGE The writer hopes herewith to supply this deficiency, as he has kept a record of the principal necessities laid down from time to time by great men who have given the results of their experience, and lays them before the reader, to follow closely and not shirk. To begin with, you should select for a birthplace a dingy-looking, little farmhouse, on the outskirts of a clearing. Log cabins have gone out of date. At one time they were quite fashionable, but something a trifle better is now demanded. As time goes on, who knows? Maybe some of our great men will be born in The Ladies’ Home Journal three-thousand-dollar country houses. This, how- ever, is a remote contingency. Be good to your mother. While the other boys of the neighborhood are playing hookey, marbles and baseball, you will be doing chores around the house. This, however, does not imply a goodness in any other way. You will, of course, avoid going to Sunday-school, and when you are comicbooks.com Ab Iierk ———— oe 7 STUDENT HOTEL CLERK I8 GIVEN A MOLIDAY.